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Bug 79590

Summary: [prefs] Helping users with change listeners
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Component: RuntimeAssignee: DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description DJ Houghton CLA 2004-11-26 14:27:19 EST
With the new structure when users are interested in preference change events,
they must register a listener on the node that they are interested in, as well
as a node change listener on the parent node to re-add their listener in case
the node is removed.

We should help users with their listeners. Currently the listeners are stored on
each node but we should investigate having a registry which perhaps keeps
listeners around across the life-cycle of nodes.
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2005-04-25 15:34:15 EDT
We will leave the change listeners on the nodes. We experimented with moving
them to a registry and had problems. See bug 89262.